Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse stýfa (to cut off, to curtail), from Proto-Germanic *stūfijaną. Related to stúfr (a stump) (modern Icelandic stúfur (a stump)).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

stýfa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative stýfði, supine stýft)

  1. (with accusative) to shorten

Conjugation edit

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